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Originally Posted by Terry
UntoHim: Actually by the time the mid-70s rolled around many of Psalms were set to music and sung in meetings, especially in young peoples meetings.
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Originally Posted by Terry
Yes! This was my experience in the early 1980's in the Young People's meetings. I remember many a Saturday night all we needed was a KJV Bible and hopefully a sister or brother with an accoustic guitar.
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One of my favorite lines in the New Testament is in the beginning of Hebrews, where the author says, "God spoke in the past to our forefathers through the prophets in many forms and many ways, but now in these final days He has spoken to us by His Son..."
This is a safeguard, a caution, against relying too much on someone's "interpreted word". We should get the speaking right from the Son, not from some mediatorial office (oracles, trainers, full-timers, co-workers, etc). When we praise the Father, the Son of God Himself should come and inhabit our praises.
Witness Lee used to speak about "poor christianity, nullifying the function of all the members of the body". But by setting himself as the sole interpreter of the word, and thus mediating the speaking of God's Son, Lee did just that: he nullified all the brothers and sisters with their guitars and KJV and NIV bibles, who were opening themselves to the Spirit of God's Son who was singing praises to the Father in the midst of the assembly. This activity Lee declared to be independent and thus unauthorized, and so it got pushed "outside the camp". And you ended up with a very weird Bible; an interpreted Bible, said interpretation necessitating the cutting off of large portions of scripture as "natural" and "fallen" in order to preserve itself.
So you got a "ministry" and an "interpretation", and you lost the scripture, the functioning of the saints, and the speaking of the Son. Hmph. Forgive me if I'm not eager to sign on.